“McKenney's Tour to the Lakes is the dullest of books, yet faithful and quiet, and gives some facts not to be met with elsewhere.”
WorkThomas Loraine McKenney
Sketches of a Tour to the Lakes
Sketches of a Tour to the Lakes (Baltimore: Fielding Lucas, 1827), Inferred
Thomas Loraine McKenney (1793–1868) · 1827
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Documented 1843
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Read for the 1843 western tour
Named among the books Fuller consulted for her western journey, and discussed in Summer on the Lakes, in 1843.
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1843—
Summer on the Lakes, in 1843
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“McKenney mentions that the young wife, during the short bloom of her beauty, is an object of homage and tenderness to her husband.”
Inferred Fuller names McKenney explicitly and summarizes his account of the Flying Pigeon, an Indian woman notable for her religious and moral character.
“Of the practical ability of the Indian women, a good specimen is given by McKenney, in an amusing story of one who went to Washington, and acted her part there in the "first circles," with a tact and sustained dissimulation worthy of Cagliostro.”
Inferred Fuller names 'McKenney' explicitly as her source for an anecdote about an Indian woman who navigated Washington society with cunning.
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.